Daniel "Dan" Andersson, born 6 April 1888 in Skattlösberg, Grangärde parish (in present-day Ludvika Municipality), Dalarna, died 16 September 1920 in Stockholm, was a Swedish author and poet. He also set some of his own poems to music. He also married primary school teacher Olga Turesson, the sister of artist Gunnar Turesson, in 1918. A nom de plume he sometimes used was Black Jim. Andersson is counted among the Swedish proletarian authors, but h...
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Daniel "Dan" Andersson, born 6 April 1888 in Skattlösberg, Grangärde parish (in present-day Ludvika Municipality), Dalarna, died 16 September 1920 in Stockholm, was a Swedish author and poet. He also set some of his own poems to music. He also married primary school teacher Olga Turesson, the sister of artist Gunnar Turesson, in 1918. A nom de plume he sometimes used was Black Jim. Andersson is counted among the Swedish proletarian authors, but his works are not limited to that genre.
Andersson grew up under poor conditions in the village of Skattlösberg where his father, primary school teacher Adolf Andersson and his wife Augusta Scherp (herself previously a teacher), worked in the school building. The village is located in the so-called "Finn Woods" of southern Dalarna, where Forest Finns immigrated to cultivate new land. On his father's side, Dan Andersson descended from these Finnish settlers. His mother was of Walloon descent. Dan Andersson would take odd jobs during the first...
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